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Sony Joins the Fray with Memory Stick Micro

Sep 30, 2005, 2:28 AM by (staff)

Sony and SanDisk today announced Memory Stick Micro, yet another new ultra-small memory card format. The new format will compete with microSD (formerly TransFlash) and MMCmicro (formerly S-Card), which are all roughly similar in size and capability, yet incompatible. "Memory Stick Micro" media is approximately one-quarter the size of "Memory Stick PRO Duo" media, yet only about 1.2 mm thick. Users will be able to insert Memory Stick Micro into an adapter for exchanging data to a Memory Stick PRO compatible product. The format is aimed at "extremely compact multimedia mobile phones".

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Invader J

Sep 30, 2005, 10:33 AM

all i gotta say is...

oh stop.

seriously. this multiple-standards situation has got to end industry wide. just work together on ONE thing - there's got to be more money and faster improvement of the technology by getting together behind one standard. the way i figure it, sandisk makes a ton of flash memory - get behind MiniSD. it's small enough dammit!

yet another flash memory standard that's like "oh hey, it'll totally support up to 32GB! but right now and for the next few months it'll only come in a 128MB version. heh."

meanwhile I'm still waiting for a 512MB transflash card. hell, a 1GB would make my day. boooo.

muchdrama

Invader J said:
oh stop.

seriously. this multiple-standards situation has got to end industry wide. just work together on ONE thing - there's got to be more money and faster improvement of the technology by getting together behi

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staiano

At least from the picture it seems they will start with 1GB cards no 128mb cards here [hopefully]

Also with Sony keeping it slightly compatible with it's other memory stick formats that a plus.

Still isn't pro duo already small enough just not h...
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muchdrama

Sep 30, 2005, 10:13 AM

*The name of the game...nothing works with anything else...

"which are all roughly similar in size and capability, yet incompatible"

Gotta love that...

mycool

too many formats makes things so annoying. One format, yah. Two, ok... Three, that's a stretch... but when you get to like 100 different forms of media, it's annoying.

Rathrok

This really shouldn't surprise anyone. This is what Sony has always done. Check out there digicams, Sony stick...there SE phones, Sony stick...camcorders, Sony stick. This is what they always do.

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